"Examine each question in terms of what is……" — Aldo Leopold
"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
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136 Quotes by Aldo Leopold
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward…
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook,…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.…
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More Aesthetically Quotes
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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
— Ben Barnes
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential…
— Kenneth Tynan
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
— Emile Chartier
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what…
— Aldo Leopold
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I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
— Suzanne Vega
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
— Karim Rashid
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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a…
— George Smoot
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious…
— Edith Schaeffer
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
— Edith Schaeffer
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I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it…
— Sam Maloof
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